White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Friday that
President Donald Trump wanted his former national security
adviser to testify in investigations into possible ties between
Trump's associates and Russia.

The former adviser, Michael Flynn, told investigators he would
submit himself to be interviewed in exchange for immunity from
prosecution, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The FBI and the intelligence committees in the House and the
Senate are each separately investigating the ties.

Though offering to testify may have been one legal recourse for
Flynn, he has come under scrutiny because he said in an interview
last year that asking for immunity in such circumstances "means
you probably committed a crime." He was referring to the FBI's
investigation into Democratic presidential nominee's Hillary
Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary
of state.

Trump himself asked on the campaign trail last year why anyone
would need to request immunity if they were not guilty of a
crime.

A reporter asked Spicer during Friday's press briefing whether
Trump still held such a view.

"He believes that Mike Flynn should go testify," Spicer said. "He
thinks that he should go up there and do what he has to do to get
the story out."

Spicer said that asking for an immunity deal was "up to [Flynn]
and his lawyer to decide."

He later said Trump was "very clear that he wants Mike Flynn to
go and be completely open and transparent with the committee, and
whatever it takes to do that he is supportive of."

As the national security adviser, Flynn had access to top-secret
materials. He was said to have been
involved in discussions about potentially lifting
sanctions on Russia that were issued in the last weeks of
President Barack Obama's administration and imposed because of
Russia's "malicious cyber-enabled activities."

Flynn
resigned in February after reports revealed he misled Vice
President Mike Pence and other White House officials about his
phone conversations with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak,
during Trump's transition to the Oval Office.